Dress



L. BOHGENICHT.

DRESS. APPLICATION FILED MAR. I919- Patented Feb. 24,1920.

2 SHEETSSHEET I.

IINVENTOR .g/ mc/or ATTORNEY I L. vBORGENICHT.

DRES&

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 24, m9.

1,331,799. I Patented Feb. 24,1920.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

VENTOR 22M WWW WQM TORNEY unitrnn STATES PATENT orr on.

LoUIs nonenmonr, or NEWVYORK, 1v. Y.

n'nnss.

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that I, Louis BORGENIOHT,'-fi. citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have inventedcer- 'tain new and useful Improvements in to the primary object, is to provide fastening I means for holding the blouse in its puffed position and which can be utilized to produce an ornamental effect when not utilized as a fastening means.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide in a simple construction, a support for the skirt element which will maintain the skirt in fixed position relative to the wearers shoulders and independent of any adjustment of the blouse element.

1 Various other objects and advantages of the invention will be in part obvious from an inspection of the accompanying drawings and in part will be more fully set forth. in the following particular description of one form of device embodying my invention, and the invention also consists in certain new and novel features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth-and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings: 7 V Figure 1 shows a view in front elevation of a preferred form of the invention with the blouse arranged to produce a middy-suit effect;

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 with the blouse looped up to form the Russian sailor effect; 4 a V Figs. 3 and f are transverse sectional views taken respectively upon the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 and H of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectlonal view of the fastening means shown at the front of the waist-line in Fig. 4.

' Specification of Letters l atent. -Patent ed Feb; 24, 1920.

Application filed March 24, 1919. seriaiino. 284,572.

In the following description and in the claim, parts will be'identified'by' specific names "for convenience of expression but they are intended 'to be as generic in their application to similarpartsas the art will permit;

The-dress comprises an undergarment 10 and a, blouse 11, both supported from the shoulders of the wearer and independent of each other.. The undergarment comprises an underwaist 12 and a skirt 13 fastened thereto at the waist-line 14 by any suitable means such as the stitching 15. It is of courseobvious that the skirt'and underwaist may be. otherwise fastened together or may even be made in one-piece, the essential point being that the skirt should have'a definite position with reference to the shoulders of the wearer and in this way be not effected by changes in the arrangement of the blouse.

The undergarment is provided with a series of button-holes 16 at the waist-line and which in the illustrated embodiment of the invention extends through the overlapped portion of the underwaist and skirt. he blouse has a length so that when falling loose, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the lower edge 17 extends below the waist-line so as to ive the middy-suit effect. The lower edge of the blouse is turned up to form a cuff 18 thus improving the effect of the blouse but it is obvious that this cuff is no material part of the invention. The cuff is provided. with a series of buttons 19 which when in the position shown in Fig. 1 coacts with the cufl to provide a pleasing, decorative effect to the lower portion of the blouse. When the blouse is looped under and upwardly as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, the buttons 19 are caused to engage the button-holes 16 as shown more particularly in Fig. 4. There is,

sailor effect. 7

By means of a device of this character, two different appearances can be made with the same garment and in either position, the

re-arrangement of the lower portion of the thus produced the puffedblouse orRussian certain novel features of my invention, it

will be understood that various omissions,

substitutions and changes in the form and details of the device illustrated and in its of the invention. 7 p I Having thus described my invention, I-

operation maybe made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit claim: a

In a childs dress, the combination'ofa complete unit formed of an underwaist supported from the shoulders and a skirt hung therefrom at the waist line whereby the unit is supported solely from the shoulders of the wearer, said unitproyided with a series of circumferentially spaced apart button holes at the waist line, of a separate blouse worn over the unit and otherwise independent thereof, said blouse having a length when falling free to extend below the waist-line the blouse is turned under, and the buttons on the blouse engaged in the coacting button-holes in the unit, the free edge is sup ported by the unit and a puifed blouse suit or Russian sailorefi'ect is produced K Signed at New, York city, in the county of New York and State. of New York, this 19th day of March, A. D. 1919.

Louis BORGENICHT. 

